Brooklyn College's MFA Program is delighted to announce that MacArthur Fellow and New Yorker 20 Under 40 writer Dinaw Mengestu will be joining the full-time fiction faculty in the fall of 2014.

Congratulations to faculty member Marjorie Welish, who has been awarded a 2014 Guggenheim Fellowship, and to playwriting alumna Annie Baker, who has received a 2014 Guggenheim Fellowship and the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

This small, highly
personal two-year program in creative writing confers Masters of Fine
Arts degrees in fiction, poetry, and playwriting. It offers single-discipline
and inter-genre workshops, literature seminars, small-group reading tutorials,
and one-on-one tutorials, all of which emphasize relationships between eminent
faculty and students. Additionally, students have the opportunity to work
on our literary journal, The Brooklyn Review, and give public readings and performances
in Brooklyn and Manhattan. The program offers some fellowships and prizes. Students may also teach undergraduate courses for the English
Department.

Our graduates have
had their work published widely and have won competitions sponsored by
the Iowa Review, the Colorado Review, the Mississippi Review,
and Zoetrope, among many others. They have had books published, received major prizes, founded presses and literary journals, and been included in numerous anthologies, including The Best New Young
Poets, Best American Short Stories, Best American Nonrequired Reading, O. Henry, and Pushcart. Our playwrights
have won Obies and Guggenheim Awards, started theater companies, and had their plays produced
here and abroad. For more information about what our students, alumni, and faculty are up to, please visit our Student Publications, Announcements, and Events pages.